RowanTaylor
After some more advanced blacksmithing projects? Check out my channel.
Historical recreations and tool making are my thing and I upload a new video every Saturday on how to have a go yourself at making some slightly more tricky items such as lighting implements, axes and pattern welding to name but a few.
I trained at the National School of Blacksmithing in Hereford, followed by an apprenticeship in restoration and conservation of heritage ironwork. I now work from a 200 year old smithy in Rural England.
Early Bronze Age (Arreton phase) spear from scratch.
Forging Viking Tongs
Forging a Roman Iron Fibula
Recreating the iron stand from Sutton Hoo. Part 2: The bull head capital.
Reproducing the Iron Stand from Sutton Hoo. Part 1: The shaft.
reproducing the Sutton Hoo Axehammer. Part 4: Completion.
Forging the Sutton Hoo axehammer. Part 3: Profiling, assembly and new ring.
Forging the Sutton Hoo Axehammer. Part 2: The head.
Forging the Sutton-Hoo axe-hammer. Part I, the iron handle.
Casting experiment #1
Forging a Brown Bess Bayonet. Part 3: Preparing the socket and scarfing the blade.
Forging a 1st model Brown-Bess Bayonet. Part 2: forging the blade.
Forging a Brown Bess Bayonet: Part 1: Tooling-up.
Forging a mini turning hammer for Pete Smith
Recreating the Sutton Hoo Chain. Part 14: finishing.
Recreating the Sutton Hoo chain. Part 13: Reef-knot chain links.
Recreating the Sutton Hoo chain. Part 12: Rivetting the swivel.
Recreating the Sutton Hoo chain. Part 11: The figure of 8 links.
Forging the Sutton Hoo cooking chain. Part 10: assembling with firewelded rings.
Forging the Sutton Hoo Chain. Part 9: The two-bar hooks
Forging the Sutton Hoo Chain. Part 8: Finishing the composite element.
Forging the Sutton Hoo Chain. Part 7, starting the composite element.
Forging the Sutton Hoo Chain. Part 6: The knotted element.
Forging the Sutton Hoo chain. Part 5: The first chain element.
Forging the Sutton Hoo Chain. Part 4: the third element.
Forging the Sutton Hoo chain. Part 3: The fullered side bars.
Forging the Sutton Hoo chain. Part 2, starting the swivel.
Reproducing the Sutton Hoo chain. Part 1: The suspension ring.
Forging a wrought-iron medieval trowel.
Forging shears. Part 3: Heat treat and cleanup.